The Book
Democracy Project has a good post on the story behind the “swiftboating” of John Kerry. “To Set the Record Straight” is the book that tells you how they took on the Kerry for President campaign and helped defeat him.
As John ONeill says in his Foreword to the book,
“How the Swiftees, POWs and other Vietnam veterans circumvented the media and reached out to the public is a story that has profound implications for future political campaigns and news reporting…
“…Honor, Loyalty and Patriotism…These values were able to rouse hundreds of Swifties and millions of other veterans from their deep political sleep of 35 years. The blindness of our opponents can be accounted for only because such values are rare and often considered laughable among Kerrys operatives and media allies. These values are neither rare nor a subject of amusement among most Americans. In 2004, they changed the course of history.
